As someone who is passionate about technology, this is my blog designed to help educate people about social media. As well, I want to use this social media forum to bring our growing tech community together.

Note: This is an mySA.com City Brights Blog. These blogs are not written or edited by mySA or the San Antonio Express-News. The authors are solely responsible for the content.

When the offer to see “The Three Phantoms in Concert” came from fellow mySA blogger, Jack Fishman, the president of the San Antonio Symphony, it came with the caveat that I didn’t need to blog about it. Yet, after seeing the symphony perform, it got me thinking about our city’s tech movement, so I had […]
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His given name is William Hurley, but everyone in Austin knows him as Whurley. And, this tech maverick is a hero of mine. For the past six months, Whurley and other tech leaders have questioned Austin city government on its web site procurement page. When the city decided to award a web site project to […]
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When Tina Cannon, the chief executive officer of petsMD, made her presentation at the Austin Innotech Beta Summit today, she asked a crowded room to show her if they were dog owners by barking loudly. Sure enough, the room filled with barks. And, then without any solicitation, there was a large round of meows. Cannon’s […]
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While I don’t go to many trade shows, I am always amazed at the swag given by vendors to potential customers. As the publicist for the Austin Innotech, I did an early morning tour of the booths at today’s trade show. As usual, there are a lot of folks with chocolate, pens and the other […]
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Joe Corella, Microsoft’s national technology director, is the featured keynote speaker for the InnoTech Austin event tomorrow in Austin. With the rollout of Windows 7, I wanted to share this interview with “MYSA” bloggers. And, as Innotech’s publicist, I am hoping that a lot of my San Antonio “techies” will make the short drive north […]
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If you have an unwanted cellphone or two and are going to Austin Innotech Thursday, bring them to help Austin Goodwill. As the publicist for the event, I found the cellphone campaign for a nonprofit program innovative. While the focus on this campaign is on helping Goodwill, J.C. Otero, the community outreach manager, said his […]
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It’s been 25 years, give or take a year, when I last saw my friend, 1st Lt. Richard Caldwell. We were stationed in Hessisch Oldendorf AS, West Germany and he got follow on orders to Ramstein. Thanks to Facebook, we reconnected. Rich, a retired “light colonel” just sent me an email about a project one […]
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Does your dining habits impact your ability to get a good night’s sleep? According to Dr. Bruce Meleski, the owner of Intellibed Texas, the food you consume before bed impacts your ability to sleep. My weekend diet personally demonstrated how much it impacted my ability to rest. On Friday, I had a hamburger, fries and […]
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With the addition of texting to our life, are we changing our English language? If you believe a research done by college psychology students at the University of Alberta, we’re in the process of changing our language. With only 140 characters available on Twitter and almost the same amount on your cell phone, shortening words […]
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To someone who doesn’t work in computers and technology, the term “cloud security” conjures up visions of St. Peter at the pearly gates checking a person’s record. Yet, in the tech space, the term “cloud” means the storage of data. According to the folks at searchcloudcomputing.com, “Cloud computing is a general term for anything that […]
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